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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Helen when she became blind and deaf?

2. What animal does Helen drag home?

3. Where was the Perkins Institute located?

4. Helen's account of learning to make the connection between the spellings and objects is a snapshot of what?

5. Why did Helen's family tend to let her have her own way whenever possible?

Short Essay Questions

1. What allowed Helen to forget all of the controversy about her plagiarism?

2. In her final chapter, who does Helen have unkind words for?

3. What happened nine months after Anne Sullivan arrived at Helen's home?

4. What were the big events that Helen was able to participate in during 1893?

5. How did Helen practice her math skills and what would she always do during math class?

6. How did Helen feel about Shakespeare and how did her feelings change from the time she was a child to an young adult?

7. What gave Kate hope for Helen?

8. What did Anne reason about the way normal children's language skills develop and how did she apply that to Helen?

9. How did Helen imitate her father?

10. How does Helen describe her feelings about her tree friends?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What would you consider to be the main theme of this novel? Why do you think this is the theme? In what ways does this theme extend beyond the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Why do you believe Helen had to learn the strategy of applying herself to something that does not interest her? Did you also have to learn this strategy? If so, why? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways did Helen change throughout the novel? In what ways did she remain the same? Do you think Helen herself recognized how she changed or did it just become more apparent to others? Why or why not?

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